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84% of Canadians think the ICC should investigate Israeli officials over alleged war crimes

“This demonstrates that Canada’s tendency to apply double standards when it comes to Israel is very unpopular with Canadians,” IJV’s National Coordinator Corey Balsam

A new survey conducted by EKOS Research Associates shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians would support International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of Israel.

The poll, which was co-sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), and the United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel (UNJPPI), found that 84% of Canadians think the ICC should investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israeli officials. 86% of Canadians do not believe that the human rights record of Israel should be overlooked because the country is an ally of Canada. 82% want Canada’s current policy toward Jerusalem to be maintained, with the city being shared rather than it being recognized as Israel’s capital exclusively.

“This demonstrates that Canada’s tendency to apply double standards when it comes to Israel is very unpopular with Canadians,” said IJV’s National Coordinator Corey Balsam in a statement, “Although successive governments have tended to mute their criticism of Israel, Canadians believe that Israel’s violations should be treated as seriously as those of any other country.”

This poll comes just days after the Trump administration announced that it would sanction ICC officials over their investigation into alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, members of congress sent (AIPAC-backed) letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, calling on the Trump administration to protect Israel from any ICC probes.

You can read the whole survey at CJPME‘s website.

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I’m particularly pleased to see this report. It’s not been mentioned in any Canadian News report.

I sent this Message to CanaDa’s new Global Affairs Minister February 18. It is edited because of space limitations

Honourable Minister Champagne,
I was happy learning you will now carry the Light guiding you, to the World. [,,,] I hoped for better with you, but I was disappointed to see not much has changed vis a vis Israel-Palestine.

Let me remind you, outside of Israeli-Palestinian-Middle East-Armageddon, CanaDa is the only other place on Earth, The Creator placed among the Nations, whose founding struggle is rooted on The Plains of Abraham over here, the Jews and Palestinians at odds over The Plains of Abraham there. [,,,]

It has long been said ‘Power Corrupts’ and with all the information those in power have access to,[…], adsorbing just what the MSM propagates, and other news sources online, my comment in The Washington Post Today, is totally at odds with current Canadian Government Policy,

Abba Eban, Israel’s Foreign Minister during the 1967 war said this when the 6 Day War was over.

“Wars are not always begun by shots. They are often begun by action and the action which really created the state of war in an acute sense, was the imposition of the blockade. To try to murder somebody by strangulation is just as much attempted murder as if you tried to murder him by a shot, and therefore the act of strangulation was the first violent, physical act which had its part in the sequence.”

It refers to Egypt closing the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping after Israel did a practice run for the 6 Day War provoking the casus belli with Syria April 7, shooting down 7 Syrian jet fighters. The Israel high Command was confident the combined Arab armies were no match for the IDF. It was just a matter of provoking the War they could blame on the Arabs.

Israel and the US , along with CanaDa, discount Eban’s justification for War these Days, with Israeli BDS on steroids slowly strangling Gaza, and US BDS with extreme prejudice strangling Iran.

But no BDS against Israel to compel them to modify their Apartheid System, treating Palestinians with the same disdain Nazis treated the Jews in another Place and Time.

Western governments appease Israel with a Munich like appeasement. […]

Does that mean Canadians are more informed, and smarter than us?

Justin Trudeau has Israel’s back – Viewer warning – Justin’s smarmy is not recommended for the weak of heart or those of delicate constitution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTvO_SeTvrU

Unfortunately, Canadian politicians across the board share much the same opinions in their support for Israeli criminality.

This may be about to change: there is a candidate for the leadership of the Canadian Green Party, Dimitri Lascaris, who has been a relentless critic of Israel’s appalling treatment of the Palestinians, and has a realistic chance of winning the upcoming Green Party leadership vote (October 3). If victorious, he will give voice to the “86% of Canadians [who] do not believe that the human rights record of Israel should be overlooked”
Doubtless, the Zionists are sharpening their knives. However they will discover Lascaris is no push-over – very smart, articulate, and fearless.

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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/university-toronto–job-offer-academic-Israel-criticism
“University of Toronto rescinds job offer to academic over Israel criticism”“University denies Azarova had ever been officially hired; it did not address concerns that a judge and donor had reportedly objected to her hiring.” Middle East Eye, Sept. 17/20

EXCERPTS:
“The University of Toronto is reported to have rescinded an offer to a prominent international academic for a position as director of its human rights programme because of her work on Israeli rights abuses, faculty have alleged. 

“The dean of the university’s law school, Edward Iacobucci, has come under fire for the decision, with the faculty advisory board of the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) resigning in protest.

“The board chose Valentina Azarova for the position and began the hiring process in mid-August, according to a series of letters obtained by The Star, a local newspaper. 

“Several top professors at U of T wrote to the university to express their objection to its firing of Azarova, who has worked to establish human-rights enforcement mechanisms globally and has consulted for UN fact-finding missions. She is also a fellow at the Manchester International Law Centre, speaks multiple languages, and has lived in the Middle East and Africa.

“The faculty claimed that the university was pressured to rescind Azarova’s offer by a sitting judge, who also happens to be a major donor to the IHRP programme, the Star reported.

“The judge reportedly expressed concerns in private over Azarova’s past work on Israel’s human rights abuses in Palestine.

“‘The recent search for an executive director has generated substantial controversy, including allegations of outside interference in the hiring process,’ Vincent Chiao, Trudo Lemmens and Anna Su, three members of the faculty advisory committee, said in a letter sent to Iacobucci on Wednesday, as quoted by The Star.” (Cont’d)

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“‘It’s a criticism that I share. It’s a criticism of long-standing human rights violations of international law, primarily through the project of settlements which is unquestionably illegal and that’s the kind of majority position around the world. It’s not an exotic position to take at all,’ said Mann, who worked closely with Azarova at the non-profit Global Legal Action Network on migration and refugee issues in Europe.

“‘Even from the perspective of people who imagine themselves as helping defend or support Israel, I think this would be a grave mistake.’

“Being able to debate is an essential part of democracy.”

“Two past directors of the IHRP, in a letter to Dean Iacobucci dated 12 September, said ‘Azarova – the hiring committee’s top candidate – accepted the faculty’s offer in mid-August’.